NSRNDani Gaudette, The University of Tampa Keywords: soul belief, afterlife, Norway, Finland, nonreligion, secularism Developing countries are experiencing secularization, leading to a noticeable decline in religious beliefs. Since this change is still...
PRRIThis week, The Politics of Gen Z: How Young Voters Will Shape Our Democracy, written by PRRI CEO Melissa Deckman, Ph.D., was released by Columbia University Press. This marks the first book-length examination of how gender and sexuality influence...
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NAASRInterlocutions Interlocutions About our program: The 2024 NAASR Annual Meeting will provide a space to explore contemporary theoretical gains that have a bearing on and/or implications for academic studies of religion. Doing so will not only...
Canadian Society for the Study of ReligionCongratulations to the winner of the 2022 CSSR Book Prize, Abdolmohammad Kazemipur, for his book entitled Sacred as Secular: Secularization under Theocracy in Iran (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2022). The post 2022 Book Prize Winner appeared...
State of FormationFrom Grace Boyd, Dr. Robin Mitchell Stroud, and the University of Southern California (USC) Office of Religious and Spiritual Life — a conversation about cats, conflict transformation, and lessons learned from campus interfaith engagement. Robin...
State of FormationIn the summer of 2023, Alina Wilson attended the Interfaith America Summit, despite feeling increasingly distant from institutionalized religion. Returning to a campus rife with politically charged religious divisions and struggling with the impact...
Te Ture Tāhae Whenua - The Doctrine of Discovery in AotearoaThe Christians made me do it.
NAASROn March 16th, NAASR members gathered virtually to talk about their new research and the scholarship from outside of Religious Studies that was inspiring them. Dr. Lauren Horn Griffin (Louisiana State University) and Dr. Vaia Touna (University of...
Te Ture Tāhae Whenua - The Doctrine of Discovery in AotearoaReconciling ones faith with the harms of religious colonialism
Canadian Society for the Study of ReligionAcademic Teaching Staff – Religious Studies ART History/Classics/Religion Closing Date – May 31, 2024 While this position welcomes applications from individuals external to the university, current Academic Teaching Staff are first notified of...
Sacred MattersWelcome to 7 Questions, our series where we highlight exciting scholars in the field of religion and get to know the person behind the book. For this article, we interviewed Ethan Doyle White, whose book, The New Witches of the West, was recently...
Digital Religion7th May 2024 | H 4-5.30 pm |AULA CIASCA Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia Sapienza Università di Roma Discussants Alberta Giorgi |Università...
Canadian Society for the Study of ReligionWebinar CSSR Webinar Registration /Inscription pour le webinaire de la SCÉR Amarnath Amarasingam will give a presentation titled “‘Shoot the Traitors to the Nation!’: Hindu Nationalism, Past and Present” as part of the Canadian Society for the...
Sacred MattersWelcome to 7 Questions, our series where we highlight exciting scholars in the field of religion and get to know the person behind the book. For this article, we interviewed Joseph Laycock, whose co-authored book, The Exorcist Effect: Horror,...
Digital ReligionWe are pleased to invite you to contribute to the new Special Issue of Poligrafi dedicated to the material dimension of online religious...
NAASRIn recent years, critical Indigenous studies has challenged the Western European and colonial episteme that has shaped academic disciplines and fields such as anthropology, history, philosophy, and religious studies. Indigenous studies scholars and...
Canadian Society for the Study of ReligionWebinar 1 La fin de la culture religieuse: chronique d’une disparition annoncée CSSR Webinar Registration /Inscription pour le webinaire de la SCÉR Mireille Estivalèzes presents her book La fin de la culture religieuse: chronique d’une disparition...
Canadian Society for the Study of ReligionLa fin de la culture religieuse: chronique d’une disparition annoncée CSSR Webinar Registration /Inscription pour le webinaire de la SCÉR Mireille Estivalèzes presents her book La fin de la culture religieuse: chronique d’une disparition annoncée...
Sacred MattersWelcome to our series, “Excellent Excerpts,” where we share selections from recently or soon-to-be published books we think you should check out! In this post we are featuring Nursing the Spirit: Care, Public Life, and the Dignity of Vulnerable...
Indigenous Values InitiativeWe re excited to announce or collaborative limited edition series podcast with Good Faith Media. This podcast was produced at our conference: The Religious Origins of White Supremacy: Johnson v. M’Intosh and the Doctrine of Christian Discovery....
Digital ReligionReading Religion , an online review journal of new books by the American Academy of Religion, has launched a new feature called “Four...
Digital ReligionFor those who missed the annual lecture for the NMRDC’s 2023 Digital Religion Research Award, it is now available online at:...
Digital ReligionThe Digital Religion Yearbook was envisioned by the NMRDC to highlight important research and scholarship being produced in the...
Sacred MattersWelcome to 7 Questions, our series where we highlight exciting scholars in the field of religion and get to know the person behind the book. For this article, we interviewed Don Grant, whose book Nursing the Spirit: Care, Public Life, and the...
Canadian Society for the Study of ReligionYou are invited to the Canadian Society for the Study of Religion’s (CSSR) Webinar featuring presentations by our Graduate Student Essay Contest Prize Winners from 2022-2023. Delicate Instruments And The Challenges Of Empirical Observation In...
Digital ReligionThe Network for New Media, Religion and Digital Culture Studies (NMRDC); http://digrel.com) is pleased to announce the call for published...
Sacred MattersWelcome to our series, “Excellent Excerpts,” where we share selections from recently or soon-to-be published books we think you should check out! In this post we are featuring The Gut: A Black Atlantic Alimentary Tract by Elizabeth Perez, published...
Original Free NationsFeatured Epic Events & Life-Changing Courses with Shawna Bluestar and Steven T. Newcomb. Wisdom for the New Paradigm Series Film Screening The Doctrine of Discovery: Unmasking the Domination Code Q & A with Shawna Bluestar & Steven Newcomb Join us...
Sacred MattersWelcome to our series, “Excellent Excerpts,” where we share selections from recently or soon-to-be published books we think you should check out! In this post we are featuring An Ethos of Blackness: Rastafari Cosmology, Culture, and...
Digital Religion2023 Digital Religion Research Award winner is Dr. Sana Patel for her article: Hybrid Imams: Young Muslims and Religious Authority on...
Sacred MattersWelcome to 7 Questions, our series where we highlight exciting scholars in the field of religion and get to know the person behind the book. For this article, we interviewed Vivaldi Jean-Marie, whose book An Ethos of Blackness: Rastafari Cosmology,...
Canadian Society for the Study of ReligionDate Posted: 12/15/2023 Closing Date: 02/01/2024, 11:59PM ET Req ID: 35253 Job Category: Faculty – Contractually Limited Term Appointment Faculty/Division: Faculty of Arts & Science Department: Department for the Study of Religion Campus: St....
Digital ReligionOn the 1st of December, Giulia Evolvi, NMRDC assistant director and board member, launched the project MERGE- Media, religion, and...
Sacred MattersWelcome to 7 Questions, our series where we highlight exciting scholars in the field of religion and get to know the person behind the book. For this article, we interviewed Daniel Shank Cruz, whose book Ethics for Apocalyptic Times: Theapoetics,...
Sacred MattersWelcome to our series, “Excellent Excerpts,” where we share selections from recently or soon-to-be published books we think you should check out! In this post we are featuring Rebuilding Community: Rebuilding Community: Displaced Women and the...
Digital ReligionSpecial Issue in the journal “Frontiers in Political Science”, October 2023. CALL FOR PAPERS: Digital religion meets politics: pushing...
Indigenous Values Initiative“The Religious Origins of White Supremacy: Johnson v. M’lntosh and the Doctrine of Christian Discovery” will take place on the Syracuse University campus Dec. 8-10. Its main sponsor is the Henry Luce Foundation, which awarded the University...
Sacred MattersWelcome to 7 Questions, our series where we highlight exciting scholars in the field of religion and get to know the person behind the book. For this article, we interviewed Zeynep Korkman, whose book Gendered Fortunes: Divination, Precarity, and...
State of FormationMy concept of Interfaith began to develop long before I joined the BILI Fellowship. Indeed, a diverse range of perspectives and backgrounds has always been at the center of my Sikh faith, our religion’s history, and our holy scriptures. To begin...
Original Free NationsIn our view, the claim of a right of domination, and the behaviors that follow from that claim, are the main cause of the global problems we all face. This is why opposition to that claim is a potentially unifying theme for homo sapiens. The post...
Original Free NationsOur original nation ancestors understood mountains and other geographical areas as living beings imbued with spiritual energy. Our spiritual people knew and still know how to spiritually attune and align themselves with that energy in a ceremonial...
State of FormationNanakacharya, Nanak Rishi, Guru Rimpochiya, Vali Hind, Nanak Peer, Baba Nanak are all names of Guru Nanak Sahib Ji around the world. When it comes to interfaith, the clearest example I can think of is Guru Nanak Sahib Ji’s udasiaa. He traveled on...
Canadian Society for the Study of ReligionGreetings, Certificate of Christian Studies – Fall 2023 Admission Now Open The Certificate in Christian Studies will be offered through Continuing Education as a partnership among the three affiliated/federated Colleges Assumption University,...
Te Ture Tāhae Whenua - The Doctrine of Discovery in AotearoaA Quick Factsheet
State of FormationOver the past few months, the BILI (Building Interfaith Leadership Initiative) fellowship and my campus community at Tufts University have guided me to a new definition of interfaith work. I have learned that the richness of interfaith work emerges...
Original Free NationsThe context begins with the free existence of our Native nations and peoples, extending back to the beginning of our time through our oral histories and traditions, contrasted with the system of domination that was carried by ship across the ocean...
Original Free NationsThe Doctrine of Discovery: Unmasking the Domination Code The film directed by Sheldon Wolfchild, (Dakota) and co-produced by Steven T. Newcomb (Shawnee, Lenape), The Doctrine of Discovery: Unmasking The Domination Code is a compelling presentation...
State of FormationGrowing up in a western suburb of Chicago, in a primarily Catholic household, I have always had a deep appreciation and love for my Guatemalan roots and a desire to help the people in my community. My upbringing and culture serve as means of...
State of FormationWhen one thinks of art, it is easy to think of one of the greats – Jean-Michel Basquiat, Nina Simone, or Pablo Picasso. Conversation, however, is also an art through which we exchange our ideas, feelings, and beliefs. Whether great conversations...